Golf practice device



Dec. 27, 1938.

A. PERR AULT GOLF PRACTICE DEVICE OriginalFiled Feb. 23, 1957 Inventor Amos Perrcauli fiemaaisizm A iiorneys Patented Dec. 27, 1938' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Substitute of application Serial No. 127,264, February 23, 1937. This application May 27, 1938,

Serial No. 210,469

1 Claim.

This application relates to golf practice devices and more particularly to golf practice devices of the character disclosed in the appended drawing. In this drawing,

Fig. 1 shows the device in condition for use;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view.

The golf practice device hereof comprises a golf ball I of conventional form and type. For purposes of economy it may be feasible to use as the golf ball of my device a discarded golf ball. Adhesively secured to the ball, as by means of rubber cement, is a block of soft rubber 9. Such block has a hole therethrough terminating in a recess on the concave surface of the block. Within such recess is a knot 8 on the end of an elastic cord 1 which is assembled with respect to the block 9 by being passed through the hole of the latter, after which the block and the cord are vulcanized to each other.

On the free end of the cord is a parachute 2 of any suitable construction.

I propose to sell assemblies comprising the cord 1, the block 9, and the parachute 2, with the cord I passed through the hole in the block, knotted at its end, and then vulcanized to the block. The purchaser will then adhesively secure the concave surface of the block to the outer surface I of a golf ball that he has found unsatisfactory for further play and will thereupon have a satisfactory golf practice device wherein the ball is exactly like those to which he has been accustomed to use.

In the event the purchaser finds the golf ball, after practice use, too badly damaged to Warrant his continuing using such ball, he may separate the block 9 from the golf ball by dissolving the adhesive in any suitable solvent and, after cleaning the concave surface of the block, he may thereupon use the assembly of the block, cord, and parachute once more with another golf ball, adhesively securing the concave surface of the block to such other ball. In this way the purchaser may 10 have at all times a satisfactory golf practice ball which, unlike other forms known to me, is not substantially different from the golf ball which he has been accustomed to use in actual play and without requiring his purchase of practice devices more than once.

This application is a substitute for my prior application Serial No. 127,264.

Now having described my invention, I claim:

A golf practice device comprising a golf ball of conventional form and type, a block of soft rubber adhesively secured thereto and having a hole therethrough, an elastic cord having an end passed through said hole and having on such end a knot disposed between the .block and the ball, the block having a recess in the surface thereof adjacent the ball receiving such knot, the cord being vulcanized to the block, and a parachute on the other end of the cord.

AMOS PERRAULT. 

